The agency is what is known in Russia as a "troll farm," a nickname given to outfits that operate armies of sock-puppet social-media accounts, in order to create the illusion of a rabid grass-roots movement.
However, it placed the launch position in a different place to others, and said the attack could only have been carried out using a discontinued Buk M-1 system, which it claimed the Ukrainian army operated but the Russian army did not.
Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, a threat to any army operating there.
Gen Erskine wrote that some settlers were "operating a private army" in police uniforms, killing suspected Mau Mau members.
Liberland will have a government of "10 to 20 members and a police force, but will not have an army, operating an open-border policy".
Recruiting, training, equipping and operating Afghanistan's army and national police forces at their present level will cost about $6.5 billion for the current American fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
His bravado notwithstanding, the violent Islamist army operating out of these dusty alleyways, ready to lash out and quickly fade back, is deeply enmeshed in the fabric of life in this sprawling metropolis, succored by an uneasy mix of fear and sympathy among the millions of impoverished people here.
As recently as Friday the Libyan Army's chief of staff, Yousef al-Mangoush, urged protesters not to molest the many militias that were now officially authorized and ostensibly operating under the army's direction, because the government still needed them to control the country.
When the Avars resumed their operations with a large invasion in autumn 597, they appear to have caught Priscus, who was probably operating with his army at the eastern Stara Planina, off guard.
Based in the former imperial capital of Huế, Cẩn operated private armies and secret police that controlled the central region and earned himself a reputation as the most oppressive of the Ngô brothers.
The juxtaposition of dot-coms like WebMD with the still-operating Army PX, the Sustainability Art Show with Burger King -- not to mention a nudist beach beside a string of bunkers with retractable cannons -- gives the latter-day Presidio a sort of loopy charm.
